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Monthly Council^ Feintary 3, 1892. 
permission to reproduce certain arti- 
cles and illustrations in the Journal 
had been granted on the usual condi- 
tions. The Committee recommended 
that the Pasteur Institute at Paris be 
placed upon the Society’s free list for 
copies of the Journal, in exchange for 
copies of the “Annales de Tlnstitut 
Pasteur,” as issued. Preliminary con- 
sideration had been given to the 
proposed arrangements for the next 
number of the Journal ; and a variety 
of suggestions for articles and notes 
had been considered, and directions 
given thereon. 
Earl Catiicart said it was only 
due to Dr. Fream to say how very 
satisfactory his work had been with 
regard to the text-book. They were 
very much obliged both to Dr. Fream 
and to the Education Committee, 
who had arranged the matter. 
Chemical. 
Mr. Dent reported the election of 
Lord Emlyn as Chairman for the year. 
The report of the Woburn Sub-Com- 
mittee had been received and adopted, 
and various matters connected with 
the Chemical Department and Labo- 
ratory discussed and settled. 
Seeds and Plant Diseases. 
Mr. Bowen-Jones reported that 
Mr. Whitehead had been elected 
Chairman of the year. A letter had 
been received from Mr. Wliitehead 
apologising for his absence through 
ill-health, and urging the Committee 
to recommend renewed and extended 
experiments on potatoes with Bouillie 
Bordelaise during the forthcoming 
season. The Committee recommended 
that such experiments should be 
again undertaken by the Council, and 
that details of the experiments be 
settled at the March meeting. Mr. 
Carruthers had undertaken to carry 
out a separate inquiry into the exact 
nature of the effect of the Bouillie 
Bordelaise upon the potato disease 
fungus, especially as to wherein lay 
the efficacy of the mixture in the de- 
struction of the organisms. The sug- 
gestion made at the General Meeting 
of the Society in December by Mr. J. 
Kcrsley Fowler, “ that the Society 
should take further steps to encou- 
rage in this country the growth of 
sugar beet and the manufacture of 
beetroot sugar,” had been considered, 
but the Committee did not see their 
way to recommend that any definite 
steps in regard to this matter should 
be taken by the Society at the present 
moment. 
Veterinary. 
Sir John Thorold reported his • 
election as Chairman of the year. 
Professor Brown had submitted the 
annual report for 1891 of the Royal 
Veterinary College, which the Com- 
mittee recommended for publication 
in the Journal (see page IIG). 
A revised edition of Professor Brown’s 
pamphlet on “ Animals of the Farm 
in Health and Disease ” was now in 
the press, and would be issued in a 
few days. The deaths were reported 
of Mr. Osborn Hills, of Leamington, 
and Mr. J. B. Folding, of Red Lion 
Street, Burnley, the Society’s Provin- 
cial Veterinary Surgeons respectively 
for the counties of Warwick and Lan- 
caster. The Committee recommended 
the appointment of Mr. Joseph H. 
Carter, F.R.C.V.S., of Burnley, in the 
room of Mr. Folding. The examiners 
in cattle pathology for the diploma 
of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons in 1891 having reported 
that the following gentlemen, placed 
in order of merit, had attained the 
greatest distinction — (1) Mr. G. H. 
Williams, Riverside, West Drayton ; 
(2) Mr. M. T. Sadler, Burton-on-Trent 
— the Committee recommended that 
the Society’s large medal be given in 
silver to Mr. Williams, and in bronze 
to Mr. Sadler. 
Professor Brown had presented the 
following report : — 
Pleero - PNEUMONIA. — During 
the four weeks ended January 2H, 
1892, thirty-one outbreaks of 
“ pleuro-pneumonia” were reported 
to the Board of Agriculture. In live 
of these the local veterinary sur- 
geons employed b}' the Board de- 
tected the existence of other 
diseases without slaughtering. In 
twenty-six instances a test animal 
was slaughtered for the purpose of 
diagnosis, when eight were found 
affected with pleuro-pneumonia, 
and eighteen with other diseases of 
the lungs. There were twenty- 
eight cattle, affected with the 
disease, slaughtered, and also 317 
